Holocaust jibe MP facing axe

A LIB Dem MP was last night facing expulsion from the party after linking
Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Holocaust.

David Ward accused “the Jews” of failing to learn lessons from their
persecution by the Nazis in World War Two by continuing to “inflict
atrocities” on their neighbours.

Party chiefs condemned his comments — released ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day
tomorrow — and hauled him in for a dressing-down.

But the Bradford East MP remained defiant and insisted he had chosen his words
carefully. Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational
Trust, accused him of “deliberately abusing the memory of the Holocaust”.

She said: “These comments are sickening and unacceptable and have no place in
British politics.”

Jon Benjamin, head of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said he was
“outraged”.